T. Patrick Duncan, USAA Real Estate’s president and CEO, encouraged other companies to accept the green challenge. He said energy management and sustainability activities not only result in lower costs for USAA properties and tenants, they create “better performing assets financially and environmentally.”

USAA said it already was committed to reducing energy consumption and implmenting responsible environmental practices as its five-year-run as a winner of the federal government’s Energy Star Partner of the Year award demonstrates.